If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage
black upward mobility, we couldn't develop a more effective agenda than
that followed by civil rights organizations, black politicians,
academics, liberals and the news media. Let's look at it.

First, weaken the black family, but don't blame it on individual
choices. You have to preach that today's weak black family is a legacy
of slavery, Jim Crow and racism. The truth is that black female-headed
households were just 18 percent of households in 1950, as opposed to
about 68 percent today.

In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the black marriage
rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when
marriage was forbidden for blacks, most black children lived in
biological two-parent families. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of
black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family
structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families
were two-parent households.

On Monday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, host Greta Van
Susteren had representatives from both the Clare Boothe Luce Policy
Institute and Leadership Institute to talk about the IRS scrutiny they faced around the same time in 2011, which is now the center of an investigation by California Rep. Darrell Issa and his House oversight committee.

“This is no accident,” Buchanan said. “This is clearly some kind of
policy directive and I think it’s going forward as a consequence of
basically the vendetta that’s been conducted against the tea party
starting back in 2010 where you would have thought listening to
television that we’re dealing with people trying to pull off a Beer Hall
Putsch. Let me mention now that this idea of a ‘phony scandal’ — It’s
not a phony scandal and the president knows it. His numbers are going
down. The respect for the IRS is going down. People are following this
story. It’s continuing along. But they’re not getting much help from the mainstream media because it doesn’t fit the script.”

Fred and August Duesenberg were already renowned race car and engine
builders when they founded the Duesenberg Motor Company in Des Moines,
Iowa, in 1913. After relocating to a larger facility in New Jersey in
1917, the Duesenbergs built a special 16-cylinder engine to propel a
Land Speed Record car to an amazing 158 MPH at Daytona Beach.

The
following year they designed and built a Bugatti-inspired 180 CI
inline-8 engine using a single overhead camshaft and three valves per
cylinder, which in 1921 powered the only American car ever to win the
French Grand Prix. Duesenberg racers won the Indianapolis 500 three
times in a four-year period ending in 1927, by which time the company
had been purchased by E.L. Cord. Cord’s plan for his new acquisition was
to capitalize on the Duesenberg brand and engineering acumen to produce
“The World’s Finest Motor Car.” That grand goal was realized when the
new Duesenberg J was unveiled at the 1928 New York Auto Show.

Northern
animosity against Charleston in general as the “hotbed of secession”
and against Fort Sumter in particular was intense. “Doom hangs over
wicked Charleston,” wrote the New York Tribune, “If there is any city
deserving of holocaustic infamy, it is Charleston.” Fort Sumter’s
garrison never surrendered to Northern forces, it was occupied only
after evacuation in February 1865.

“We
want it for the name of the thing,” are the significant words of the
correspondent of a Northern journal,” as he closes a long list of
reasons for the reduction of Fort Sumter. “We want it for the name of
the thing.” That is the keynote of the great charivari, the monster
cat-concert, which the North has kept up with increasing spirit from the
days of the First Revolution down to the present time.

“Going
to war for an idea” is an unfortunate expression of the Emperor of the
French, an expression for which he has to encounter no little ridicule
or unmeasured obloquy . . . “Going to war for a name” is a “Yankee
notion” worthy of a people worthy of a people unrivaled for emptiness
and impudence.

There has never been a period in their history when a
catchword was not a great reality . . . To them a nickname is a nugget, a
phrase of fortune, and the happy turn of a period of far more
importance than a happy turn of events.

Every
general has his sobriquet; every State has its flash name; every
political creed has a condensed confession of faith compressed into a
single sentence. Once stigmatized with the names of Butternut and
Rebels, the Southrons were disposed of in the Yankee mind, and it is
only now and then in their rare “flashes of silence” that they reflect
for a moment how hard these Butternuts are to crack, how difficult these
Rebels to quell.

It
was for the name of the thing that they unfurled the stars and stripes
in every State of the “so-called” Confederacy; for the name of the thing
that they took every little village on the Florida coast; for the name
of the thing that they opened the Mississippi; for the name of the thing
that erected a new State of West Virginia; confirmed Maryland in her
loyalty by the mild agency of Hicks and Schenck, and held elections in
Alexandria, Norfolk and the Eastern Shore.

No
one was deceived by these names of things – nobody supposed that every
rebellious State was subjugated, that Florida was completely under
Yankee control, that the Mississippi was actually free to traffic, that
the new State of West Virginia was anything but a territorial sham, that
Maryland was heart and soul with the North, that those sections of
Eastern Virginia, which are occupied by the Federal armies, had returned
their allegiance.

But
the Yankees cared nothing for the reality. The name is all that they
wanted, a paragraph for the situation article in the New York Herald, a
period for their President’s message, a point for the orations of
Lincoln’s stump-speakers.

But
at one or two points we have been absolutely rude. They doubtless want
Richmond merely for the name of the thing, but we have repelled their
advances with the utmost coolness, or with the utmost warmth – And now
they want Charleston, for the name of the thing, and we will not let
them have it. “How unkind,” they say . . . “the city, half consumed by
one conflagration, will soon be wholly consumed by our Greek fire. Give
it up. You do not want it. We do. [We] could make capital and
capitals out of the capture. Think of it. Tremendous Triumph of the
Union Unicorn! Crushing the Cradle of Secession! Charleston Chewed Up!
The Rebels Radically Routed! . . . “

Alas,
they speak to deaf ears. It is not merely for the name of the thing
that the “heroic garrison” of Fort Sumter – now no idle appellation –
hold the trust committed to their charge. They care as little for
paragraphs as they care for projectiles, and they stand firm, have stood
firm thus far, because duty and honor require it.”

But
the Yankees, if foiled here, will get up some other excitement “for the
name of the thing,” and continue the invention of sensational lies to
the end of time, or until their national life is exhausted, and over
their worn-out carcass is written the worn-out quotation, “Nominis
Umbra.”

North Carolina has become the latest state to overhaul its teacher
tenure rules, directing school administrators to offer four-year
contracts to top performers but one- or two-year contracts to everybody
else.

Previously, all North Carolina teachers with five years of experience
were eligible for tenure, which granted them a right to due process
before dismissal. Now, longer-term job security will be limited to the
25 percent of teachers who are ranked most effective, based on
yet-to-be-determined criteria.

Republican lawmakers who pushed for the tenure changes said the old
system allowed too many ineffective teachers to remain in classrooms.

“We need to move to a situation where we provide the best teachers
the security of multi-year contracts” and provide principals the means
to remove ineffective teachers from classrooms, Senate leader Phil
Berger, a Republican, told The News & Observer of Raleigh earlier this month.

I hardly want to open this can of worms but I’ve been asked by a few
people for my opinion. We know what opinions are like, and that
everybody has one. Here’s mine.

(Let me preface: One thing I won’t do is parrot any
classified information already available online. If the military
community learned anything from the Manning leaks, it’s that just
because the information is on the open web doesn’t mean it’s not still
classified. You can say that the classification is now a moot point but
your future prison sentence isn’t on the line.)

Okay, on one hand we have GEN Keith Alexander who has now given two
‘transparency’ speeches to the hacker/info security community. One
where he was dressed casually, and spoke to attendees at last year’s Def
Con. More recently, he spoke to attendees of Black Hat USA 2013.

For some context, the NSA’s stated mission is grounded in foreign
signals intelligence. They discover, and then, in conjunction with
other agencies and organizations, deter or disrupt foreign plots against
our national security. We know because of the USA PATRIOT Act, the NSA
is able to use tools like PRISM that wind up connecting US citizens
with foreign-based known or suspected terrorists; and domestic
terrorists communicating with US citizens abroad. As long as there’s a
foreign connection and a court order, I believe that they can do
whatever they please when it comes to electronic and digital
surveillance.

While the Bureau Labor Statistics says the unemployment rate has been
around 7.5 or 7.6 percent in recent months, it's really 14.3 percent.

Why the difference? The commonly cited unemployment number ignores
people who want to work but are no longer actively seeking jobs and
counts part-time workers as employed even if they'd prefer full-time
jobs.

The government statistic called U-6, however, does take into account
those groups, people the government calls "marginally attached" to the
labor force.

In June the U-6 was 14.3 percent, unemployment worse than in Italy and
Ireland, notes the International Business Times. It's almost 3
percentage points higher than the European Union's unemployment rate.

Get ready to be astounded. This 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 is an
unrestored and original car with 902 documented miles on the odometer.
Its originality is evident in every detail of its present condition,
from the trunk-mounted Autolite battery placed there by the factory to
the plastic wrap that remains on the seat belts, steering wheel and
passenger seat. Bob Perkins, founder of Perkins Restoration, former MCA
national head judge and presently MCA Authenticity head judge knows this
car well, having first seen it in 1981. Its existence had been a
consistent rumor at early MCA national meets before being confirmed by
Ford dealer and collector Jacky Jones, who visited the owner and
examined the car on his way to Carlisle in the fall of 1981. On Jones’
advice, Perkins immediately went to see the car and arranged its
purchase on the spot. Perkins gave the car “a minor detailing on the
bare metal parts,” then displayed it in his showroom until selling it to
a private collector in 1993. It was shown publicly only once at the
2007 Forge Invitational, before being purchased by well-known high
performance Mustang and Shelby collector/vendor Richard Ellis.

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond holds the world's finest
collection of Confederate art and artifacts; it's future is in serious doubt. If
rumored changes come to pass the MOC's collection as well as the historic White
House of the Confederacy which it owns and manages, may simply cease to
exist.

Right now, some in the MOC leadership have cooked up a plan to distribute
the MOC's incredible collection among several different Richmond-area groups.
Included in that list are the Virginia Historical Society and the historic site
at Tredegar Iron Works. Neither of these can be considered
Confederate-friendly.

The Museum of the Confederacy holds an important trust as the repository of
the world's finest collection of Confederate memorabilia. Recent reports from
well-informed sources indicate that the museum's leadership is rapidly moving
forward with a plan which, in addition to dispersing the collection, will also
sell its building in downtown Richmond.

Once the collection is relocated and the building sold, the now-nearby
White House of the Confederacy will be isolated in an urban canyon surrounded by
the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and virtually lost to
tourist traffic. To think that it will be bale to sustain itself financially in
that condition is difficult to imagine.

I'm writing to you because we need to act quickly.

The SCV strongly opposes this plan and is actively urging the Museum of the
Confederacy board to reconsider. While no doubt well-intentioned, this course of
action will seriously jeopardize the integrity of this collection which is so
important to our Southern heritage.

Generations of Southerners, including many of the veterans themselves,
contributed a king's ransom to the Museum of the Confederacy in the form of
priceless antiques, family heirlooms, and relics of the Confederate cause of
incalculable value. They made these contributions with the express intent that
these antiquities would be carefully preserved and honorably displayed. That's
how the Museum of the Confederacy's collection grew to be the trustee of the
single largest collection of the treasures of the late Confederacy. To scatter
these precious treasures across several venues and organizations will
permanently diminish its importance.

The Museum of the Confederacy is technically owned by the Confederate
Memorial & Literary Society and is a private organization. They are under no
obligation to listen to the SCV or to take advice from anyone. But, we believe
they are reasonable people who by and large want to do the best they can under
the circumstances.

I have been calling everyone connected with the MOC but I would like for
them to hear from you as well.

Please contact these folks today and POLITELY let them know how important
it is that the Museum of the Confederacy's collection remain intact as a
permanent tribute to those proud soldiers.

Please urge your Compatriots and anyone who shares our view of this
important issue to let their voices be heard so that the Museum of the
Confederacy can return to being the home of the Confederacy's most important
artifacts.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may
have finally fallen completely off her rocker Tuesday as she commended
the President and her fellow Democrats in Congress for propelling the
Left into a “bipartisan, cooperative alternative” party.
The 73-year-old California Democrat seemed to fan-girl over President Obama during a meeting with USA Today’s editorial board
Tuesday, calling him “one of the most practically non-partisans I have
seen in the White House.” It seems the Commander-in-Chief has earned
this special place in Pelosi’s heart by his apparent willingness to work
with Republicans to thwart yet another upcoming fiscal crisis.

Laughing children play in a pine-scented courtyard on a warm summer’s evening. Excitement
rises to fever pitch as a creamy chocolate gateau is sliced. It appears
a timeless, idyllic scene – but in reality it is a very modern Greek
tragedy.

For this
cloistered red-brick building in a wealthy suburb of Athens is a
children’s home. Yet many of those youngsters are not orphans or the
products of dysfunctional families.

Instead, they are forgotten victims of the Eurozone crisis, handed over by parents who can no longer afford to feed them.

The
financial meltdown in Greece has caused pain and suffering throughout
the country. But in a nation where the idea of family is central to
everyday life, its youngest citizens are bearing some of the heaviest
burdens of the crisis. Scores of children have been
put in orphanages and care homes for economic reasons; one charity said
80 of the 100 children in its residential centres were there because
their families can no longer provide for them.

Ten
per cent of Greek children are said to be at risk of hunger. Teachers
talk of cancelling PE lessons because children are underfed and of
seeing pupils pick through bins for food.

At
the Zanneio Child Care Institution, I was proffered a piece of cake by
nine-year-old Nicolas Eleftheriadou. When I asked him how he was, he
replied with a shy grin: ‘I’m as tough as a walnut.’ His
parents, Olga and Alexandros, had arrived to take their three oldest
children home for the weekend; the children attend the unit from Monday
to Friday. The friendly couple both lost jobs in catering two years ago;
he delivered pizzas, she worked in a sandwich shop.

The National Popular Vote effort, which could see only 14 states –
those with the largest populations – decide the presidency for voters in
all 50 states, is fully partnered with a George Soros-funded election
group.

The group, the Center for Voting and Democracy, received original
seed money in 1997 from the Joyce Foundation, a non-profit that boasted
President Obama served on its board at the time of the grant. Obama was a
board member from July 1994 until December 2002.

The National Popular Vote, or NPV, is run by individuals with a history of support for the Democratic Party, WND found.

Last week, the Washington Post reported
NPV is “now halfway to its goal of electing future presidents via the
popular vote, after Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D) made his state
the latest to sign on.”

The Post story described NPV as a campaign seeking to “get states
that comprise a majority of the 538 votes in the Electoral College –270,
to be precise – to agree to award their electoral votes to the winner
of the national popular vote.”

Up to 6K 'beds in sheds' found by spy plane's thermal image camera

A spy plane equipped with a thermal imaging camera has found that more than 6,000 outbuildings in one town could be 'beds in sheds' converted by rogue landlords.Slough
Borough Council is the first local authority in the country to pay for
the specially-adapted aircraft to fly over streets picking up heat from sheds and garages.It spent £24,000 on flights to build
up a precise 3D map of every building in the Berkshire town. The results
mean thousands could be living there without planning permission or
contributing council tax.

The man who police say pulled a gun and tried to rob a south Fulton
County Waffle House early Monday was shot by an off-duty security guard
who was eating at the counter near the cash register.
The robbery suspect, Ashton MacAfee,
21, was armed with a silver pistol when he entered the restaurant on
Jonesboro Road just off Interstate 85 in Union City shortly before 2
a.m. on Monday, reports Atlanta Business Chronicle broadcast partner WXIA-TV.

The customer who shot MacAfee has been identified as off-duty security guard Chad Pollard.

Recently signed by Governor Pat McCrory, on October 1 House Bill 937 will
expand North Carolina's concealed handgun law into
restaurants. Under the
statute, restaurants may still elect to post signs prohibiting firearms.

Although concealed handgun permit-holders will still be
prohibited from imbibing alcohol, gun control advocates are already
planning to
pressure restaurants to prohibit concealed carry.

Accordingly, and with great reluctance, GRNC is responding
with its "GRNC Safe Restaurants Project,"to
ensure the new law will provide its intended deterrent to violent crime.

"It's
unfortunate GRNC must counter gun control activists' attempts
to undermine a law intended to deter restaurant crime and save lives. We
fully sympathize with restaurant owners caught in the middle of a
battle we'd
rather not fight, but they should understand that, according to the Pew Research
Center, gun rights supporters donate four times more and are more politically involved than gun control advocates.
They should ask themselves whether they want to alienate the 399,268 North
Carolinians who have applied for concealed handgun permits."

Rep. Darrell Issa accused the Obama administration and its new IRS chief
on Tuesday of obstructing his panel's investigation into the agency's
targeting of tea party, conservative and religious groups.

If "the IRS continues to hinder the committee's investigation in any
manner, the committee will be forced to consider use of compulsory
process," the California Republican, chairman of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, wrote in a letter to Internal Revenue
Service Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel.

The letter, which was reported by The Washington Times and CNN, was also
signed by Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who also sits on the
committee.

The letter, however, did not elaborate on exactly what steps Issa's
panel might take, though he noted that impeding congressional
investigators could result in prison terms of up to five years.

Perhaps not surprisingly, few firearms have been designed by
murderers serving prison sentences. Of those few, fewer still are
adopted by the U.S. Military as a major war fighting tool. David M.
Williams, a convicted murderer and former moonshiner redesigned a
prototype from Winchester which became the M1 Carbine.

Episode 5 – Season 3.
Air Times on Outdoor Channel: 07-31-13 at 8:00PM | 07-31-13 at 11:00PM | 08-01-13 at 2:00AM. All times ET.

Allows CHP holders to transport their personal protection handguns
in their motor vehicle while on all school property, as well as allow
them to store those handguns in their locked vehicles while parked on
school property.

Ensures the privacy of CHP holders by allowing access to the database of permittees only for law enforcement purposes.

Removes the prohibition on CHP holders carrying their personal protection firearms during a parade or funeral.

Brings North Carolina in compliance with the standards set forth in
the federal NICS Improvement Amendments Act (NIAA) of 2007—a critical
mental health reform.

Removes the prohibition on using firearms with sound suppressing devices while otherwise lawfully hunting game.

About as many people turned up to buy firearms as turned up to turn them in.

A total of 77 guns were turned in, with many of them being BB guns.

About 50 people turned up to buy any guns that were worth more than the
gift cards offered by the turn in organizers. It is very common for
people turning in guns to bring two or more guns to be turned in.

The turn in organizers had $2,500 left over to purchase more firearms. It will be used at some future event.

Many of the people who showed up to buy firearms were members of Wisconsin Carry.

Citizens purchasing private firearms at these events has become very common where private purchases are not banned by law.

Scholars have concluded that such events are ineffective at reducing crime, while opponents have said that they amount to little more than political theater aimed at undermining the Second Amendment, while being subsidized by local police forces.

Comment by Pirate Morgan on Animals: "that animal will grow and hunt larger game, it feeds on hatred and vile thoughts."

Anonymous

No
PM It feeds on Cocaine, Pot, Whores, pimping, violence, "40s" welfare
and riddlin'. No amount of hippie-brotherly love-good vibe-government
mandated "right think" can change that. I watched the riots first hand
in the 60s. My mother was a freedom rider. I grew up knowing (and having
dinner with) MLK, Rev. Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tu Tu and many
others. The black community is what it is, and It has ALWAYS been
violent. The whites just didn't care before now, because we lived
apart. (As far as I can tell "the hood" is exactly the same right now as
it was in 1966. Or for that matter 1936. White law just didn't care back
then)

But there is nothing that anyone can do that will change the
violence that blacks perpetuate on each other. We have "run" in "white
flight" to escape them. But we dare not say it for fear of being called
RACIST. But please feel free to go spend the night in any major US
city's "hood" then come back (if you can) and tell me I'm a "racist" and
"it's all my fault" or how I need to feel "White guilt" because I feel no
pity at all for these "poor urban youths". I grew up around the "urban
black" community. They are what they are. They have always been and
will always be. Nothing that anyone can ever do will change that. We
have destroyed our nation trying to "change" and "educate" to "lift out
of poverty" people who don't want our "help" and hate us for doing it
almost as much as they hate each other.

... to eliminate political and economic competition to himself first and the Democrat party second. There is no other Obama agenda. Not jobs, not economic growth, not anything.

Emplacing permanent one-party rule in this country is the sole goal for term 2.

That is what he is really doing, very energetically, while we grow tired of paying attention to him.

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There's an old saying, "Develop a reputation as an early riser and you can sleep until noon with impunity." Obama wants you to stop paying
attention. He wants to be thought of broadly by the public as out of
touch, somewhat irrelevant, ineffective and unworthy of close attention.
Then he simply intensifies his destructive economic agenda and
hazardous foreign policy with little public oversight. That way people
are less likely to take political notice of things like this:

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.